Can carrier



Aug. 31, 1954 K. A. WEIMER CAN CARRIER Filed July 19, 1952 Patented Au 31, 1954 UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE CAN CARRIER Kenneth A; Wei mer, Marion, Ind. assignor to MorrisPaper Mills, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application July 19, 1952, Serial No. 299,811

1 Claim. (01.206 65) 1 The present invention relates to improvements in a wrap-around type, paperboardcarrier for a number of cylindrical cans or like articles of uniform size and shape, the improved carrier being distinguished by its simplicity of construction, its

slight cost and the ease and speed with which it is manipulated into article encasing condition. 1 It is an object of the invention to provide an article carrier of the foregoing general description which is fabricated from a single, rectangular sheet of inexpensive paperboard stock died out and creased in a fashion to provide a double ply 1 suspending handle and to provide spaced article accommodating and restraining openings container set up and loading equipment, and the carrier is thus especially well suited for use by packers or distributors of acarmed commodity at the cannery or point of distribution. 1

1 Another object of the invention is to provide an. improved portable container package including a plurality of cylindrical sided cans, or equivalent containers or similar articles of uniform size and shape, arranged in a rectangular group I or organization, together with an improved paperboard packaging unit Wrapped around the group, this unit being characterized by an upstanding central suspending member of double ply construction and by top, side and bottom wall members which encase the rectangular container organization, the. bottom wall of, the wrapper in the manner described in the preceding paraaph. 2 l

Generally, it is an object to provide an improved handle-type, .wrap around article carrier, and to provide an improved package of articles encased by such carrier, all as described above, in which the articles are positively restrained from endwise displacement from the packaging unit simply by nesting engagement of their upper and lower margins with certain article receiving apertures at the corners of the unit, the latter being devoid of lock flaps or like special provisions engaging the articles to prevent inadvertent 1 displacement thereof.

The foregoing statements are indicative in a general way of the nature of 1 the invention.

Other and more specific objects will be apparent to those skilled intheartupon a full understanding of the construction and use of the package and component packaging unit. 1 1

A single embodiment of the invention is presented herein for purpose of illustration. will unit being secured, in a substantially overlapped relation of a pair of bottom forming panels of unequal size, by means of a pressure sensitive agent striped in the overlapped zone- Yet another object of the invention is to pro vide an improved fiat, knocked-down, wraparound packaging unit which is fabricated from a simple one-piece, rectangular paperboard blank died out, out and creased to provide. a handle opening and semi-circular article accommodating the knocked-down unit is applied to the articles be appreciated that the invention maybe incorporated in othermodified forms coming equally within the scope of the appended claim. 1

In the drawing: 1 Fig. 1 is a top plan creased rectangular paperboard blank employed in fabricating the improved wrap-around carrier or packaging unit; 1 1 i Fig. 2 is a top planviewof theimproved unit in a flat, knocked-down conditiorithereof prior to application to thepackaged articles, illustrating the manner in which the parts of the blank of Fig. 1 are folded relative 'to one another, as well as showing the application of pressure sensitive stripe to bottom-forming panels of the unit; 1

Fig. 3. is a transverse sectional view, partially broken away, illustrating conventionally a simple packaging fixture and indicating in dotted and solid lines the way the iniprovedunit is manipulated to packaging relation toaplurality of the articles grouped with the unit in the fixture; and

facture with maximum economy ofstock. It is provided with a transverse crease line H somewhat to one side of its vertical center line, and with a, pair of creases l2 paralleling and equidistantfrom crease. H on eitherside of the latter. These creases define a pair oflike, transhinged to one anotherat crease ll versely elongated handle. forming. panels l3,

Top wall formingpanels ill on either sideof view of a died-out and the pair of handle panels l3 have their margins at the respective creases l2 and at the respective parallel series of transversely aligned creases l 5. Further" sets or series of transvc ar'selyaligned creases I 6 parallel to creases I2 and I5, coact with the latter in defining side wall forming panels 11, while a pair of terminal bottom forming panels [8,19, of smaller and reater width, respectively, lie outwardly of the two respective sets of creases l6.

Circular can accommodating" and retaining apertures are formed at transversely spaced points along the respective setsof creases l.6, the centers of the apertures being on the line of the creases and being spaced from one anothera distance approximately equal to the diameter of the cans G (Figs; sand-4i): which are to be encased by the packaging unit. Handle panels l3- are each providedw With? a. hand hole 2-1, one side of which coincides with: the creaseline [2; of the panel; One of: thehand'holes' is also provided with a; protective flap? 2=2, hinged to the panel it by a" medial,-. transversely extending: crease 2-3;

Thez'packaglngi unit which-is 1 ultimately formed fromrblank Ill-isrshownin Figs. 2, being generally desi'gnatedbythe reference'numer-al- 213. In completing the blank. to? this-fiat, knock-down form, ready 'fo'r use; the" blank is simply folded upon itself about the -medial handle crease H, and the two handle panels I3 are secured to one another, as. by the use: or a: suitable adhesive, or by staples 2-5;. or? both;. Panels It, so secured, constitute a: relatively rigid" gripping and susl endingmemb'er zt of two ply construction. The shorter multi-panel section I4", I73 It. to one side of member 26 overliessthc similar but more'elongated multi-panel section M; l1, [9; the can accommodating apertures ZO being in register. Bottompanel 18? longitudinally overextends bottom panel. Ht substantiall'yl. as illustrated in Fig. 2.

With the packaging unit in thisrelatively flat, knocked=down condition, the same is passed through; a coating: apparatus, by which" continusimilar coating: on-.; another: surface but is nonadherentto an: unc'oated: surface. Thus sticking of stacked units! 24= o'r offsetting: of adhesive do not constitute-ra -problem:

It is intended that the improved packaging unit 2- 4 be suppliedrinthe fiatknock-down shown iirF-ig. 2=for use at'=a -cannery-, a=-' brewery, etc., or at a distributingestablishment through which the commodity inquestion is handled; Completion of the package will be: performed at such establishment by its own personnel. A- very simple packaging. fixture, such as isillustrated in Fig. 3 and is generally. designated 21; maybe employed for the purpose.v

This is a box-like device, comprising a special bottom 28; side walls 29' and end walls 30' secured in fixed' rectangular relation, the bottom. being provided with a depending center board 31 which is longitudinally and internally grooved at 32 to provide a slot whose depth approximates the height of handle of. packaging unit 2'4. Thewidth of bottom wall 28 is slightly greater than the" combinedwidths of thetwo top panels l4 and its" length approximates the transverse dimension of unit 24; It's side walls 29 may be coextensive in height with side wall panels ll of the unit and its end walls may be of slightly less height, in order to facilitate removal of the completed package from fixture-fl'.

In assembling the package, the handle of the unit is introduced into fixture slot 32, whereupon downward force is exerted on the adjoining panels This causes top panels It to swing downwardly about handle creases [2 into fiatwise engagement withzthefixture bottom 28. Side wall panels 11' similarlyflex upwardly about creases I5 and assume upstanding, side by side engagement with fixture side walls 29.

With packaging unit 24 in this position, a group of cansC' is placed therein, as illustrated in Fig. 3, the rounded ends of the can being received in the semiwircula'r aperturest B at the-side and bottom corners of the'unit. Upstandingbottom. panelsl 1:8"; is: are then folded inward-1y and downwardly about creases 16, in theorder named,v bringing. the pressure: sensitive adhesive stripes of those members-into contact with. one another,

whereupon pressure-is applied to the zone of the which projectabove the end. walls 30 of the fix' ture; Appropriate pedal operated ejector means may alsobe provided; if desired.

Thepackage is simple; compact in the extreme and very inexpensive to assemble right at a: can.-

nery or brewery. It requires-no complicatedcarriererecting or loading: apparatus, as is the case with fully assembled article" carriers or cartons, evenof the: collapsible type: No' preparatory operations of any sort, such as gluing or folding,. arerequired prior to loading. The units 2 4- are supplied. tothe purchaser, ready for imme diate: use, in-the knocked-down condition: of Fig.

2. They obviously occupy a minimum spacevin shipment andin storage prior touse;

I claim:

A paperboard article packaging um't adapted to be. assembled in box-like outline to encase a plurality of cans or similar identical objects: arranged. in row. formation, saidlunit comprisin a pair of generally similar rectangular paperboard sections integrally connected to one: another by means includinga crease at correspondin margins. thereof anddisposed flatwiseinface to-face contact, saidI sections eachcomprising rectangular handleside wall'andbottom panelsrintegrally connected by parallel. creases. in the order named, the respective handle and side wall panels having corresponding. creased margins thereof in register with oneanothensaid bottom panelsbeing of unequal widthin thedirection from creases hinging the same to the respective side wall panels, and a stripe of pressure sensitive adhesive coated parallel to. said creases across surfaces of each of said bottompanels which. are exposed in the. same direction, said adhesive being in a dry condition andnon-adherent to a similar; uncoated surface; and means securing. said'sections. in saidflatwisev contact at said handle panels.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 2*,2173757 Lindley Oct. 15; 1940 2,5591948 Currie July 10, 1951 $603,923 Chidsey'; J'rf; July 22,1952

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